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The Rogue’s Guide to Shakespeare on Film #54: The Taming of the Shrew (1929)
54. Sam Taylor’s The Taming of the Shrew (1929) Thirty-eight years before Hollywood power-couple Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton captivated audiences as Katherine and Petruchio, Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford did something similar. Apparently, this is the first Shakespeare film with sound, and the performances of Fairbanks and Pickford are not especially good. When their… Continue reading
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Episode 261: Sarah Gerard!
Episode 261 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download. On Episode 261, I interview the prose writer Sarah Gerard! TEXTS MENTIONED NOTES In Animal: a Beast of a Literary Magazine, here is my essay about the alligator incident at Walt Disney World. Episode… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #180: She
The Curator of Schlock #180 by Jeff Shuster She Simple. Beautiful. Classic. Ever get invited to a friend’s birthday party and you don’t know any of the guests? It’s awkward. You don’t get the in jokes. You don’t want to hog your friend because he has other guests to attend so you strike up a… Continue reading
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The Rogue’s Guide to Shakespeare on Film #53: The Tempest (2010)
53. Julie Taymor’s The Tempest (2010) In 1999, Julie Taymor gave life to Titus Andronicus, an obscure, early, and quite bloody play by Shakespeare. It was great. In 2002, she gave us a visionary biopic of Frida Kahlo. It was good. In 2007, she made Across the Universe, a musical cobbled together from Beatles tunes… Continue reading
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Episode 260: Jaroslav Kalfař!
Episode 260 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download. 260 shows equals a fifth anniversary, I’ve decided, so it was a pleasure to talk to someone who was here at the very beginning. Jaroslav Kalfař was my occasional co-host to talk about craft… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #179: Lust for a Vampire
The Curator of Schlock #179 by Jeff Shuster Lust for a Vampire Don’t lust after a vampire, kids! So we’re continuing Hammer Month here at The Museum of Schlock. Tonight’s entry is a vampire picture called Lust for a Vampire from director Jimmy Sangster. If memory serves, lust is one of the Seven Deadly Sins. I was taught to… Continue reading
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Episode 259: Mixtape (Unwritten Blues)
Episode 259 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download. Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #178: The Reptile
The Curator of Schlock #178 by Jeff Shuster The Reptile Because The Amphibian just doesn’t sound as sinister. Your Curator of Schlock is back from his one month hiatus that everything to do with planning hard for the future of schlock curation and nothing to do with visiting Disney theme parks in the Orlando area.… Continue reading
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Episode 258: A Star Wars Roundtable!
Episode 258 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download. In this week’s episode, Julian Chambliss, Dianne Turgeon Richardson, Tod Caviness, and Kevin Hutchinson join me in a roundtable discussion of Star Wars. We talk about the questionable genius of George Lucas, the role of Disney… Continue reading
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Episode 257: A Craft Discussion of Margaret Atwood’s In Other Worlds with Vanessa Blakeslee!
Episode 257 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download. In this week’s episode, I talk with Vanessa Blakeslee about Margaret Atwood’s In Other Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination. TEXTS DISCUSSED Episode 257 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available… Continue reading
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